§ *MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will second the efforts the Bengal Government is making to assist the indigo industry in India by supplying to the Navy cloth dyed by natural indigo in the place of cloth dyed by products described as indigo dye, which in many cases have neither natural or, indeed, synthetic indigo in their composition.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. EDMUND ROBERTSON, Dundee)The cloth and serge supplied to the Navy are at present required to be dyed with natural vat indigo, and nothing further could therefore be done in the direction suggested by the hon. Member.